Comparative criminal justice 2200-1CWPK77-ERA

At the end of the course, the participants will get a basic understanding of other criminal justice systems and will better understand the function and malfunction of the different criminal justice systems. We will focus on countries of the European Union, the USA as well as on Poland, Russia, and other former communists states. Restorative Justice and Gender issues from a feminist jurisprudence perspective will be extensively incorporated in the program.
What to expect in class/What I expect of students:
Class time will be spent in a mixture of lectures and discussions. You will be provided with materials for each class. You can feel free to visit me during my office hours, write e-mails, or make an appointment to discuss any problems, which might arise.

At the end of the course the participants will be obtained:
Knowledge:
1) On different criminal justice systems and reasons for identified differences.
2) Relation between crime and culture
3) Relation between crime and politics, economy, and media.

Skills
1) Will be able to understand the dependence between specific criminal justice model, and economy, policy, history, and politics of the country.
2) Will be able to take analytical, holistic, and critical approaches for evaluation of discussed criminal justice systems and specific criminal justice phenomena.
3) Will be able to analyze the connection between terrorism, globalization, and politics of fear

Understanding:
1) will understand the function and malfunction of the different criminal justice systems.
2) Will understand that crime scale, crime statistic, and prison population are generally independent of each other.
3) Will understand that familiarity with foreign criminal justice systems broadens our understanding of other legal cultures and provides an opportunity to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of the local criminal justice system.
4) Will understand that the criminal justice system has rather limited possibility to solve social problems.

Grading will be based on active participation in the class. Students are required to prepare one presentation (up to 15-25 minutes ) on one of the subjects from the syllabus inviting the discussion and a short essay (6 900 characters / 3 regular pages) supporting the presentation.
Requirements/preparations for attending class:
Students are expected to read the material assigned for the day and be prepared for the discussion.

Class time will be spent in a mixture of presentation and discussion. It is the conservatorium, so students are to prepare the introduction to one of the syllabus subjects. It should be a 15-20 minutes critical presentation of specific issues that we are concentrating on during the class. The students’ point of view is very welcome. The presentation should be followed by a general discussion. The better the students are prepared the less of the lecture we will be “condemned” to. You do not need to agree with my views, but you have to demonstrate your excellence in apprehending the literature, broad knowledge, and ability to build good, reasonable arguments to provide your own point of view. You will have the materials provided via e-mail for each class.
You can feel free to visit me during my office hours, write e-mails, or make an appointment to discuss any problems, which might arise.
I do expect students to read the material assigned for the day and prepare for the discussion.
To provide extra incentives to complete the reading before class and facilitate class discussion, I will ask you to demonstrate the knowledge of it both during the class discussion and in your final presentation.
Participation and in-class discussion – 40%
Presentation in class 60%

Welcome and looking forward to seeing you in the class!

Not required

Literature for every class in the academic tear of 2021-2022
Course Outline CCJ and literature 2021-2022
Prof. UW dr hab. Monika Platek;
University of Warsaw; Law Faculty
COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE (CCJ)
Winter 2020-2021– Language: English

Tuesday, 13:15-14:45 room 215 – Old Library, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
Office hour: Tuesday 8:15-9:15 Iuridicum I room 131, Criminology office
phone: 55 20 529, 55 24 317
E-mail; m.platek@wpia.uw.edu.pl;
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Course rationale/ Description

This course is designed to enjoy learning and understanding the role and function of the criminal justice system in different societies. The comparative analysis helps to see and understand the differences. What we name as crime, how we approach it, and what kind of punishment and why we applied; this is not just what criminal justice is about. It provides us with a better understanding of the role criminal justice has when politics, economy, social life, and quality of life are concerned. Thanks to the international audience we will share our experiences and learn from each other.
At the end of the course, the participants will get a basic understanding of other criminal justice systems and will better understand the function and malfunction of the different criminal justice systems. We will focus on countries of the European Union, the USA as well as on Poland, Russia, and other former communists states. Restorative Justice and Gender issues from a feminist jurisprudence perspective will be extensively incorporated in the program.
What to expect in class/What I expect of students:
Class time will be spent in a mixture of lectures and discussions. You will be provided with materials for each class. You can feel free to visit me during my office hours, write e-mails, or make an appointment to discuss any problems, which might arise.

Grading:

Grading will be based on active participation in the class. Students are required to prepare one presentation (up to 15-25 minutes ) on one of the subjects from the syllabus inviting the discussion and a short essay (6 900 characters - 3 regular pages) supporting the presentation.
Requirements/preparations for attending class:
Students are expected to read the material assigned for the day and be prepared for the discussion.
Welcome and looking forward to seeing you in the class!

Course Outline CCJ 2020-2021
1. 5.10.2021.
The introduction to the course. Comparative Criminal Justice. An outline

2. 12.10.2021
Penal Policy and Political economy.
Michael Cavadino and James Dignan, Penal Policy and political economy, “Criminology and Criminal Justice” 2006, nr 6, p. 435-456; additional: Adam Belforado – Unfair – the new science of criminal injustice, New York 2016.; Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, New York 2012.

3. 19.10.2021
What is the right thing to do? Mind your motive; The Supreme Principle of Morality after Sanders and the Shipwreck case. Justice. The way we practice it in criminal law.

Queen v. Dudley and Stephens (1884); https://la.utexas.edu/users/jmciver/357L/QueenvDS.PDF [07.10.2019]
M. Płatek, The philosophical roots of punishment in modern criminal law and its practical limits (with special regard to foreign cultures and terrorism) ‘Studia Iuridica’ 2016, Nr 67, p. 133-155. http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.ceon.element-888d94cf-1f4a-3720-bba0-87a9a23747d4?q=bwmeta1.element.ceon.volume-35f2d7b6-a9c7-3f1b-84d3-954feeb0e481;8&qt=CHILDREN-STATELESS [07.10.2019]

4. 26.10.2021
Gender, LGBTQ+, religion, and nationalism – criminal and social policy approach
A new area of criminal law – from drugs, fake news, and new “witch” CCJ approach to “gender” and LGBTQ+ community
The limits of criminal justice. Criminalization of people’s sexual orientation.
http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/FS_Homosexuality_ENG.pdf

5. 2.11.2021
Would you kill the fat man?
Philippa Foot, The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect, Oxford Review, no. 5,1967, http://www2.pitt.edu/~mthompso/readings/foot.pdf [07.10.2019]

6. 9.11.2021

How to deal with domestic violence? International approach
ECHR Opuz v. Turkey
M. Angel, Why Judy Norman Acted in Reasonable Self-Defense: An Abused Women and Sleeping Man, 2006

7. 16.11.2021
A comparative approach to Domestic Violence regulation
CETS201 and CETS 210 – How do we approach it; International perspectives and national policies
CETS201; Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse; https://rm.coe.int/1680084822 [07.10.2019]
CETS210 Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence; https://rm.coe.int/168008482e [07.10.2019]

8. 23.11.2021
Practicing choices in times of terrorism, based on Ferdinand von Schirach “Terror”,
“Terror”: Theatre as Discussion on Ethics and the Law, https://thetheatretimes.com/terror-theatre-discussion-ethics-law/[07.10.2019]
The German Air Security Acts: Luftsicherheitsgesetz (2005 Aviation Security Act of 11 January 2005), art. 122a, an amendment to Polish Law on State Security Borders (of 12 October 1990, Dz. U. Nr 78, poz. 461 amended).

9. 30.11.2021
The time of #MeToo; from Hollywood to Holly City. The White-Collar Crime revisited. Is it still Sutherland's theory or a new era of shifting the shame pattern?

10. 7.12.2021
Comparative Criminology approach to sexual assault; Not only #Meeto;
C. MacKinnon, A sex-equality approach to sexual assault, Ann N.Y, Acad Sci. 989☹265-275) (2003);
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/us/the-metoo-moment-no-longer-complicit.html?rref=collection%2Fseriescollection%2Fmetoo-moment&action=click&contentCollection=us®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=16&pgtype=collection
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/us/sexual-harrasment-weinstein-trump.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer

11. 14.12.2021
Rape – national and international regulation; Criminal policy and gender equality;
ECHR M.C. V. Bulgaria (39272/98), CETS 210 [https://www.coe.int/t/dg2/equality/domesticviolencecampaign/resources/M.C.v.BULGARIA_en.asp
Prosecutor v. Akayesu http://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/rwanda/pdf/]

12. 21.12.2021
Prison population as a political construct; Prison population as the result of social policy.
L. Wacquant, Deadly symbiosis. When ghetto and prison meet and mesh, “Punishment and Society” 2001, nr 1 p. 95-134;
H .v. Hofer, Prison populations as political constructs: the case of Finland, Holland, and Sweden, “Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention” 2003, Vol. 4, p. 21-38;

13.4.01.2022
The idea of restorative justice
N. Christie, Conflicts as property. “The British Journal of Criminology” 1977, No, 1, s. 1-15.;

14. 11.01.2022
Zimbardo experiment and Abu Ghraib case
P. Zimbardo, C. Haney The past and future of US Prison Policy, 25 years after Stanford experiment, “American Psychologist” 1998, Vol 53, Nr 7, p.709-726; P. Zimbardo, Lucyfer effect, how good people turn evil, April 2, 2007 - http://forum-network.org/lecture/lucifer-effect-how-good-people-turn-evil

15. 18.01.2022
Comparative Criminological Approach to Human Rights; European Union – Refugees and Copenhagen Criteria.
The story is not only about New Year Eve;
http://ec.europa.eu/immigration/who-does-what/more-information/explaining-the-rules-why-are-there-eu-rules-and-national-rules_en; http://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/glossary/accession_criteria_copenhague.html

literature - auxiliary list

CCJ literature:

M. Alexander, The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, New York 2012
M. Angel, Why Judy Norman Acted in Reasonable Self-Defense: An Abused Women and Sleeping Man, 2006; Buffalo Women's Law Journal: Vol. 16, Article 8. Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/bwlj/vol16/iss1/8
C. Baerveldt, H. Bunkers, Limits to growth: The case of Dutch prison capacity, “ Crime, Law & Social Change” 1996, nr 25, p. 153-172.;
E. Baldursson (2000) Prisoners, prisons and punishment in small societies. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention: Vol 1/2000:6-15.
A. Belforado, Unfair – the new science of criminal injustice, New York 2016.
A Boff, Y. Rentsrom, Protecting LGBTI1people in the context of rising anti-LGBTIhate speech and discrimination: The role of local and regional authorities (2021), CG-CUR(2021)16-02Prov; https://rm.coe.int/protecting-lgbti-people-in-the-context-of-rising-anti-lgbti-hate-speec/1680a16129
CETS201; Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse; https://rm.coe.int/1680084822 [07.10.2019]
CETS210 Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence; https://rm.coe.int/168008482e [07.10.2019
N. Chakraborti, J. Garland, Hate crime, Sage 2009.
N. Christie, Conflicts as property. “The British Journal of Criminology” 1977, No, 1, s. 1-15.;
N. Christie, Limits to Pain. Oslo 1981.
N. Christie, Suitable amount of crime, Oslo 2004;
M. Cavadino, J. Dignan, Penal Policy and political economy, “Criminology and Criminal Justice” 2006, nr 6, p. 435-456
D. Downes, The Macho Penal Economy: Mass Incarceration in the United States – A European Perspective, “Punishment & Society” 2001, Nr 3, p.61-80;
P. Foot, The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect, Oxford Review, no. 5,1967, http://www2.pitt.edu/~mthompso/readings/foot.pdf [07.10.2019]
ECHR M.C. v. Bulgaria (application no. 39272/98),
ECHR Opuz v. Turkey, (application no. 33401/02)
A v. Hirsch The logic of prison growth, “The Modern Law Review” 1994, No 3, p. 476-482;
H .v. Hofer, Crime, and Punishment in Sweden: Historical Criminal Justice Statistics 1750-2000, “Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention” 2003, Vol. 4, p. 162-179.;
H.v. Hofer, Prison populations as political constructs: the case of Finland, Holland, and Sweden, “Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention” 2003, Vol. 4, p. 21-38.
ICC Prosecutor v. Akayesu http://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/rwanda/pdf/]
C. MacKinnon, A sex-equality approach to sexual assault, Ann N.Y, Acad. Sci. 989, 265-275) (2003);
C. MacKinnon, Rape, Genocide and Women’s Human Rights, “Harvard Women’s. Legal Journal 1994 no 5;
Case ETHR Kauczor v. Poland;
Case Queen v. Dudley and Stephens (1884); https://la.utexas.edu/users/jmciver/357L/QueenvDS.PDF [07.10.2019]
A. Nilsson, Living conditions, Social Exclusion and Recidivism Among. Prison Inmates, “Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention” 2003, Vol. 4, p. 57-83.
M.O’Keefe, Incarcerated Battered Women: A comparison of battered women who killed their abusers and those incarcerated for other offenses, “Journal of Family Violence” 1997, No 1, p. 1-19M. Płatek, The philosophical roots of punishment in modern criminal law and its practical limits (with special regard to foreign cultures and terrorism) ‘Studia Iuridica’ 2016, Nr 67, p. 133-155M. Płatek, Poland: The Political Legacy and Penal Practice, w: Punishment in Europe. A Critical Anatomy of Penal Systems, ed. By Vincenzo Ruggiero, Mick Ryan, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2013, s. 183-205.M. Płatek, Punishment and the restoration of legality in Poland, in: W kręgu kryminologii romantycznej, ed. by M. Platek, M. Fajst, Warszawa 2004, p.: 217-248.
J. Pratt, Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess. Part. I, “The British Journal of Criminology” 2008, no 2, p. 119-137.;
J. Pratt, Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess. Part. II, “The British Journal of Criminology” 2008, no 3, p. 275-292.
T. Lappi-Seppala, The Fall of the Finnish Prison Population, “Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention” 2000, Vol. 1, p. 27-40,
T. Skardhamar, Inmates Social Background, and Living Conditions, “Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention” 2003, Vol. 4, p. 39-56;
M. Szwed Marcin, The Polish model of civil post-conviction preventive
detention in the light of the European Convention on Human Rights, The International Journal of
Human Rights, 2021, DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2021.1874937
L. Wacquant, Deadly symbiosis. When ghetto and prison meet and mesh, “Punishment and Society” 2001, nr 1 p. 95-134.

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